Information about DNS and network
Hi, I need help to configure my DNS on my domain. The situation:I have a domain and I created a DDNS entry, I used ddclient and everything is works fine now with the IP update and everything. However, I host 2 servers on my machine, until recently I had 2 different DDNS to the same … Read More “Different DNS Records and DynDNS IPs” »
Hopefully I’m asking in the right place, but does anyone know how and if it is possible to combine two SmartDNS providers in PiHole or elsewhere for that matter? So here is what I’m looking to do. For most things, the SmartDNS which I’m using is absolutely fine for all the services I want, apart … Read More “Combining two Smart DNS services in PiHole?” »
I’ll try to be brief. This is a long story that involves lawyers, illegal streaming, and even the police. When I first started to learn web development in late 2019, I bought up a few domains through google domains to practice making websites/applications and shared them with friends. Mostly static sites, nothing crazy. One of … Read More “Did I get DNS cache poisoned? Or was my google account just hacked?” »
Hello, So I heard that there’s a proccess you can do to block websites with a DNS or something, so that even a vpn won’t let me access it, but I’m a complete idiot and don’t understand what the steps are. Anybody know what steps to take so I can block websites on my computer … Read More “Block websites with DNS?” »
Hello I have a few development environments… dev.example.com dev1.example.com dev2.example.com We deploy code between environments for development purposes however there is only 1 development domain active and available at a time. Instead of wondering which development environment is active, I would like to have another domain always pointing to the active development environment. test.example.com If … Read More “Active DNS domains” »
Hi all, I’ll admit I’m still a bit of a noob with Ubuntu and the whole networking side (I’ve grown up with Windows unfortunately and Linux is still deep water for me) So, my issue is I purchased a domain name with GoDaddy, then set up a server at home running Ubuntu Linux (desktop but … Read More “Ubuntu DNS not connecting” »
Hi there. I have built a new website for a client, hosted on GoDaddy, using a temporary domain. Her previous site was still live and hosted elsewhere. The domain is registered at 123reg. We are now at the point where we want to transfer to the new site and point the domain at GoDaddy. … Read More “Help/Advice (asap!)” »
Hi! (FYI: I’ve replaced my actual domain in this post with “example”) I’m kind of a noob with DNS and don’t have much experience with it. I’m trying to get my own DNS running and so far I’ve made a primary zone for my domain. For the domain I have: A record (named @) … Read More “DNS lookup not finding nameservers?” »
I ping a .9 IP address and it times out. The server already has a reverse lookup record for associated with .11. That’s correct. Can I simply delete the records? So reverse lookups records are auto populated? When are situations that it populates an IP record that does not work? Perhaps, this happens if the … Read More “Windows DNS has a reverse lookup IP that does not exist” »
Hello, I am hosting a site on digital ocean. It’s a WordPress droplet. I grabbed the three name servers and added them to namesilo, removing the ones I had: ns1.digitalocean.com ns2.digitalocean.com ns3.digitalocean.com Then I grabbed the ipv4 and removed everthing that namesilo had as default for DNS records. I set my A record settings using … Read More “Having travel connecting my digital ocean hosting to namesilo domain” »